Instruments

Information on how to get musical instruments to play music in a variety of tunings.

See also The Great Xenharmonic Fixed-Pitch Instrument Database .

• Strings
  • fretted: guitars, bass, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, balalaika, viol, sitar, etc.
  • (unfretted) violin etc., oud, qanun, fretless bass, harps, zithers, hammer dulcimers, dan bau
  • autoharp
  • moodswinger
  • Home Made Canon
  • pedal steel
  • Cable Tie Frets - instruction and examples on using cable ties as frets on a defretted guitar
• Brass:
  • Trumpet, Horn, Trombone (duh!), Tuba, digeridoo, alphorn
  • bwhisperer.com JI-oriented website, "The Brass Whisperer's main aim is to play with subtle music tunings and coax brass players (and other musicians) into achieving delicious harmonies."
• Woodwinds
  • Reedless Instruments: Flutes, Recorders, Whistles
  • Reed Instruments: Bassoons, Clarinets, Saxophones, Oboes
• Percussion
  • mallet keyboards: vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, crotales, lithophone, etc.
  • tuned drums: timpani, rototoms, pat waing
  • bells: carillon, conic bellophone, tubulong, amglocken, handbells, zoomoozophone, sound tower/sound cube
  • lamellophones: kalimba (mbira), marimbula
  • friction idiophones: musical saw, wine glasses, nail violin, Daxophone
• Keyboards: Piano, Harpsichord, Organ, Clavichord, but also Synthesizers
• Web browser-based on-screen keyboards:
  • “Microtonal Music Study” family
  • ReTuner:
    on facebook
    on Encyclotronic
• Free Reeds:
  • Harmonica
  • Reed Organs, Accordion, Melodica, Khaen, etc.
• Others: udderbot, tubulong, balloon flute
• Software, DAWs, plugins

Tuning-agnostic instruments

These instruments can play in any microtonal scale out-of-the-box, because 12edo is not a part of their manufacture:

• Fretless string instruments

• • Fretless bass
  • Fretless guitar
  • Violin, viola, cello, double bass (the string quartet is a whole tuning-agnostic ensemble)
  • Oud
• String instruments with one pitch per string
  • Hammered dulcimer
• Wind instruments with a slide or other continuous pitch control
  • Trombone
  • Udderbot
• Musical saw
• Daxophone
• Theremin (originally named Termenvox)